Ful Medames is the national dish of Egypt, often eaten at breakfast. It consists of slow-cooked fava beans that have been partially or completely mashed. Olive oil is often an ingredient, and garlic is sometimes added. Ful medames is served with plenty of olive oil, chopped parsley, onion, garlic, and lemon juice and usually eaten with pita. Though originally a peasant food, it is now considered a delicacy. This article is on the plant. ... Jump to: navigation, search In agriculture, olive oil is an oil extracted from the fruit of the European olive tree , which originated in the Mediterranean area. ... Binomial name Allium sativum L. Garlic (Allium sativum) is a bulbous perennial food plant of the family Alliaceae. ... Species Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) is a bright green, biennial herb that is very common in Middle Eastern, European, and American cooking. ... Binomial name Allium cepa L. Onion in the general sense can be used for any plant in the Genus Allium but used without qualifiers usually means Allium cepa L., also called the garden onion. ... Jump to: navigation, search Binomial name Citrus × limon (L.) Burm. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Peasant Foods (or poor peoples food, sometimes including traditional foods) are those dishes specific to a particular culture made from accessible and inexpensive ingredients and usually prepared and spiced to make them more palatable. ... This is a List of delicacies. ...
The dish's unusual name derives from two different languages: Ful is the Arabic word for fava beans, and medames is a Coptic word meaning "buried." The second word hints at the original cooking method, which involved burying a sealed pot of water and beans under hot coals. This cooking method for fava beans is mentioned in the Jerusalem Talmud, indicating that it has been used in the Middle East at least since the Fourth Century. The Jerusalem Talmud (In Hebrew Talmud Yerushalmi, in short known as the Yerushalmi), also known as the Palestinian Talmud, (not related to current Palestinian issues at all!), was written in the Land of Israel at the same time of the writing of the the Babylonian Talmud, (which is known as... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... (3rd century - 4th century - 5th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 4th century was that century which lasted from 301 to 400. ...
Curiously, although remnants of ful, which are a local variety of dried brown fava or broad bean, have been found in the earliest archaeological sites, the ancient Egyptians regarded them as unclean.
Medames is derived from the word for ashes, and refers to the traditional method of cooking the beans over coals, a slow and gentle method that suited the beans and could conveniently be done overnight, so that they were plump and tender in the morning, ready for breakfast.
Fulmedames is not only served for breakfast, but to 'breakfast' on the evenings of Ramadan.
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